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God's ever-present life pours into the soul willing to let go of what it has been for the sake of His Love. Into each of our lives comes some fight that must be made; however, the key to true self-victory is not that we "win" at all costs, but rather that we remain true, kind, and innocent in spite of the costs.

The Peace of God is the Song of all His Spheres: It is the music they intone as they spin and spread themselves throughout His universe. --Guy Finley Think of the role music's played in your own life. The songs you love. How they've helped you understand and express your own feelings. How they've evoked hope... longing... happiness... even the wish to be a better person. Music moves us,...

DISCOVER the secrets of how to drop whatever is keeping you from finding your greatest joy and living your most fulfilling life. Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time, based on Guy Finley's bestseller The Secret of Letting Go, is a portable treasury of wisdom that empowers you to let go of self-limiting patterns such as fear and stress in favor of a new order of consciousness...

We human beings are born with the natural wish to love, to be creative, to enjoy success, to find lasting contentment. The fact that this longing was placed inside of us means that its natural fulfillment exists. Our deepest wishes -- prayers of the heart -- are made to be fulfilled... once you know how to ask for them. You just need to learn the secret to making prayers that work!...

No matter how old you are, where you live, what kind of education you have, or what you may or may not possess, this is your chance to learn how to choose the life you really want -- moment-to-moment, no matter the circumstances. Just imagine being able to choose a life where you: * Are never bored * Expertly handle any difficult situation * Always beat the...

Modern physicists now confirm what the Wise Ones have always known: we live in many worlds at once. And yet, for most of us, our awareness is limited only to that world that we can touch with our senses. But we are not meant to dwell in a single dimension of time and space, any more than an eagle is created to fly while holding one of its talons to the ground...

There is a set of mighty, eternal principles that govern everything in the Universe. Just as the wind lifts a kite, readers can learn to use these principles to elevate their lives and effortlessly discover the happiness, love, and higher success they have always longed for. In 365 Days to Let Go, author Guy Finley reveals two of the most beautiful and...

When it comes to the possibility of spiritual rebirth, it isn't that God does not will this for all of his earth-clad children. Quite the contrary: In this world of ours the goodness of God's Will is always active through his Son. What nullifies the birth of this eternal Life within us is that we have yet to learn how to ask and receive it. What is freely offered to us goes unaccepted because...

Before I dream may I hope for you. Before I long may I reach for you. Before I judge may I listen to you. Before I rush may I rest with you. Before I shout may I call on you. Before I doubt may I hear from you. Before I brag may I point to you. Before I fear may I trust in you. Before I act may I remember you... So that in these things, in all I do, It is not I that am first,...

Is having a silent mind essential to spiritual development, and what exactly is gained by practicing inner silence? True silence is not just the absence of noise; it is a kind of spiritual medium in which not only are we able to discern what is false, but through which what is true can increasingly reach us and teach us. It is very helpful to practice some form of being silent. As you devel...

What is meditation, and is there some "best" method for its practice? What is prayer and what's the most effective way to pray? Should I be really be asking God for specific things? How can I practice ceaseless prayer? When I sit down to meditate, thoughts crowd in, and I can't seem to find a truly quiet moment. How am I ever going to change if I can't even do this simple exercise?...

The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself becoming agitated, simply notice what idea are you connected to? Look how simple that is, if you'll do it. Here is one small example. You are driving down the street and you notice that you're feeling depressed. Or maybe you're feeli...

Here are two proven ways you can learn to work in the Now to ensure that you reach ever-higher levels of personal freedom. Our honest examination of these spiritual assertions -- based upon our own life experience -- proves our need to realize their promise. For best results, first meditate on what each statement means in and of itself. Let the freedom it illustrates awaken in you the remembra...

There are two basic kinds of prayer. The first kind of prayer -- the one most commonly understood and practiced -- is when you are asking for what you want; when you are temporarily filled with -- and renewed by -- both the self making that request and the anticipation of what is requested. This is the only kind of prayer that most men and women ever know; when someone asks from himself for...

The following may shock you, and I hope it comes as just that. Everyone practices prayer twenty-four hours a day . . . only neither do they know they're praying, nor do they know (and this is the real problem) what it is they're praying for! And this fact of life includes those people who say, "But I don't believe in prayer. I don't have a spiritual practice." A moment's consideration of the...

When a mind is at rest, anything that stirs it is instantly recognized. When we can be awake to what stirs us -- become conscious of what is always pushing us, moving us, drawing us along -- then we have a chance to actually begin to recognize and realize what it would mean to be able to sit in a room and not have our mind pulling on us from a thousand different directions about a thousand dif...

Sometimes when you rush in, I feel as though I am standing upon the bank of a river rising up in me, and that you are its sudden waters coming over me. Caught up as I am in these moments, all I want is to be carried away. I want to offer myself, toss myself into this upwelling; but I don't know where to find the edge of these waters in order to leap. In these times I feel as the parched eart...

Guy explains that one of the primary reasons why we don't change is because there's no space in our life. He shows how real change requires we agree to the stirrings and disturbances that are part of the full life. These stirrings and disturbances actually serve a purpose we cannot know in advance.

How many times in a day do we find ourselves having gone after something that we wanted, only to find ourselves "gotten" or "done in" by what we have reached for? Then what happens? The crying, complaining, bitterness, blaming starts: "Oh, why is this happening to me? This isn't right!" We can't see how we actually participated in producing the moment in which we find ourselves compromised, an...

Our sense of self, the way we experience ourselves, is very much connected to the widely varying states of emotional energies that come into us and that seem to shape the nature of our individuality. But the fact of the matter is, there is no such separate self, at least not the way we presently experience it. There are just these ceaseless states of energy and the fleeting sense of self they...

The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...

Everywhere we look, people are concerned with essentially one thing: getting what they want, when they want it, and as fast as possible. The fires that fuel their appetite for this envisioned success create so much smoke that they lose sight of the fact that all they reap for their insistent sowing are the cold ashes of regret raked out of broken relationships. If we are ever to realize the i...

Living within you is the understanding that you are created for a single purpose. The single purpose is that you represent--as an individual--the possibility of perfection. Why is it that we love music the way that we do? You probably have never thought of it before, but it is because you are a living tempo. The heartbeat of the Universe is what gives you your heartbeat. The perfect harmony o...

The best time to practice going quiet -- to detect and drop dark inner voices -- is when the world around you is more or less already in a natural state of silence. So, early morning, upon arising, and just before you go to sleep, are the most likely times to yield the best results. But, as you'll no doubt come to discover for yourself, any time is the right time to go quiet. Find a place...

Part 1 Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying -- in vain -- to fill an empty heart with a string of meaningless experiences. Part 2 We have freedom of choice, but not from the consequences of those choices.

Having heard even a faint call to awaken, to realize the truth of God's Life, one should follow the guidance of his heart, all the while remaining as awake as possible to its quiet urge to either correct, redirect, or all together change the path upon which one walks.

The mind that is still mirrors whatever passes into it, finding itself unable to tell whether its nature is that which reflects the form, or whether it is the form being reflected. Love, and its companion, compassion, is the inability to distinguish between these opposites.

The reason that rebirth -- true resurrection -- is a precondition of entering the kingdom of heaven is because the kingdom of heaven is not so much a "place" as it is an act of Love, and nothing may enter into it that is not one with its Life.

The main reason it's wise to listen to one's own heart -- whenever we can step out of the rush and remember to do so -- is because there's much more to be learned from the parts of us that don't "speak" in words, than those that do.

We have within us a new, higher vantage point -- a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us. This yet-to-be realized state of ourselves may be called conscious self-awareness. Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with the passing shadows of life, we can discover a life in a peace far above the rea...

Here is a great secret about authentic prayer: When a man or a woman really prays, there must be some trembling behind it. If there is no trembling behind a prayer, then there is no implied sacrifice behind the words in the prayer. The authentic nature of all prayer is to establish a direct communion with conscious forces -- with God's life. We ought not pray with arrogance or with an attitud...

All relationships suffer when stagnation sets in; whether in a pond or our personal dealings with others, everything must be continually refreshed in order to realize its true potential. For us this means each re-appearance of some old resentment, fear, or regret, chokes the life out of our chance to love one another, which is our spiritual responsibility. What's so hard for us to understand i...

In one respect, everything about one's spiritual life is so terribly simple. There is only one time and one way in which to be still, and that is to be still. So the first thing is to understand that we don't need to stop the world. What we need to do is understand that the world whirling around us is the world of our own reactions. It isn't until we can start to see some of this that it be...

Interview with Brenda Michaels and Rob Spears of "Conscious Talk Radio" on 8/6/09. Topics explored in this dialogue: Why space, quietude, and peace of mind are missing from our lives; We're intended to always be in relationship with the "presence moment"; Why making an essential shift in the way we see ourselves and our lives is necessary...

An unattended mind breeds defeat. When we are not present to ourselves, whether we see it or not, we are breeding defeat. Energy is wasted in the mind that is unattended. When we are not attentive, our minds spend our vital life energy wrapped up in fruitless pursuits. Simply put, our minds are always working on something, even when we're not there! Wouldn't you like to be involved in decidin...

Every once in a great while you get a very quick glimpse of the fact that you are spiritually alone. How much more alone can a human being be than when all of the psychological props are pulled out from under him or her? Every shattered dream and every crisis brings us back to that moment in which we realize that inwardly we are alone, with nothing and no one to lean on. We must see the fact...

In this Saturday discussion Guy encourages us to see that as human beings we represent a unique possibility in the field of all possibilities. But as we live presently, from the divided mind, it is impossible to know that "this" and "that" are one thing...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains how, presently, we suffer because we tell ourselves what the quality of the moment is. Instead, we are intended to face the moment purely, without ascribing our own quality to it...

In this special short talk Guy expands on the previous ""Thou Art -- I Am"" attention exercises to include prayer and the integration of the heart, mind and soul. All work with attention is intended to integrate with what is whole and it is through prayer that our unique relationship with the expression...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains that we are not the creators of love, but rather the instruments of love through which God seeks Himself. Our biggest problem as human beings is that we are completely separate from the true mystery of life and instead seek to complete ourselves through our unreconcilable desires. The only way real change can take place within us is when we agree to exc...

When you go outside on a beautiful day and step into the sunlight, do you have to try to enjoy the warmth? Or is the warmth of the sun just part of what is there, and you are a part of it? Similarly, real meditation is effortless. It is the fulfillment of natural relationship, not the attempt on our part to create relationship. Your being itself is meditating, as it is a natural part of the wh...

Talk Summary: In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to understand that what we call ""unwanted moments"" are actually life's invitations for us to discover more about our true nature.

In this Saturday discussion Guy elaborates on the purpose of the attention exercises and why the development of attention is necessary to our spiritual life. As human beings we are shut off from the world of higher impressions because the divided mind seeks an outcome for...

In this short talk Guy explains that if we want to understand the moments of both emptiness and fullness we must learn to wait and meet life where response touches reality. We must learn to wait through the storms, high points, nothingness, and all of the spectrums of Life...

In this special short talk Guy gives an additional iteration to the attention exercises to help us build a living intention to be present in order to have the attention that is needed to have a different relationship with life.

There is a spiritual idea that appears in the New Testament which states, "Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door will be opened to you." It is our mistaken belief this idea is saying that all of our desires will be fulfilled simply by asking God, and that our "order" should be filled to our exact specifications as quickly as possible. Most of us have to learn the hard way about what it...

Much of our time in this life is spent waiting for something to happen. There are times when waiting is inescapable -- waiting in traffic, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for an appointment -- but we can be attending to a higher world while we are waiting in this one. We are intended to know what it means to wait within ourselves even as we are waiting in the exterior world. Wai...

What do we typically give our attention to in any given moment? Whether we are busy working on a practical task or waiting expectantly for something to happen, our attention is usually lost in a stream of thoughts about the past or about what may take place in the future. For those of us who are tired of finding ourselves the servant of any errant thought, we must learn what it means to wait i...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics covered: No rushing exists outside of our thinking; Our problems begin with the way we see life, and not with the life we see; No matter what happens you must use the moment that has been given to you for the highest purpose it is meant to serve; Being relaxed is about doing what's practical and dropping what's punishing; There's...

Topics covered: Our sensory mind, with its divisive nature that only knows cause and effect, thinks that energies come at it, but they actually come from within you; There are certain true powerful questions that only appear in the heart and mind when the individual agrees to consciously suffer these energies; What am I actually asking for when I make the prayer 'Have mercy on my soul'; If you...

Topics covered: My consciousness is my condition, and my condition is my consciousness; The whole of this work is preparation for being what you are; The conditions in your life will repeat themselves until there's a change in what seeds the condition; You feel the way you do because of the level of consciousness that meets the moment; Change occurs by my consciousness seeing itself; Awareness...

Topics covered: There is no 'grey area' in the spiritual world; To 're-member' yourself you must first sense yourself; Our five senses create bridges between us and the physical world, and awareness creates a bridge to the spiritual world; Judgments are superficial, impressions are deep; Thought can't see the opposites at once but awareness can; Anything that isn't immortal is in vain; The fal...

The reason we haven't as yet realized real rescue -- and so usually wind up trapped in a tangle once more -- is because every time we ask ourselves how we've managed to get stuck again, we usually turn right around and tell ourselves the answer.

Topics covered: Can you help people on a downward spiral; I've had the experience that I don't exist; Were you afraid to let go of your dreams; Using knowledge as a crutch instead of taking action; What is our role regarding family, society, and the planet; Is the world of duality a mistake; I suffer from a compulsion that has stolen my possibilities; How does acceptance of our present state h...

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between being completely passive to life's movements, and being properly active in the moment, which involves listening intently to what the present moment is wanting to communicate to us about ourselves.

Disagree with the opinion of what others would have you believe is true, and they will secretly resent you; but quietly refuse to argue about anything with these same people, and they will openly cry out that you have abandoned them.

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a 'right place' for yourself -- or for any others around you -- just go still; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

Topics covered: Why do I fall repeatedly into the same unsupportive patterns; Why is Truth so difficult to know and experience; Is it true that the next step is 'graced from above' and not under my control; How do I not judge and criticize my husband when we don't agree; How do I carry my spiritual success over into my financial life; It's easier to watch my thoughts in the morning and evening...

Topics covered: We are always in the grip of something that asks to be fulfilled through what's known; Over time a school becomes the expression of the individuals in it; Only what is real can reveal what is real; Spirit uses shocks to prune the self; Imagination is sleep; Any moment I am present to myself and waiting, I am making a request; It is what you are in any given moment that speaks,...

Topics covered: A true school polishes the same stone from 50 different angles; You can't really measure an act of hatred by your resistance to it; Anytime you ask 'why' you're dodging the impression; When you feel hurt and betrayed, bring it into all of you; We never know origin in unwanted moments, we only know destination; Every truth said is a reflection of a larger truth.

Topics covered: What is inspiration and are there different ways to use it; How can these teachings be applied to art; What is the difference between denial of a problem and letting go of it; How can I better discern practical, necessary thought from unconscious, hurtful thought; How do we drop a disturbance without resisting it; Some of my passions are not supported by friends and family; Are...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 14, 2013. Part 1: Unconscious suffering is a creation of incomplete perception; it is the inevitable painful outcome of having mistaken the partial for the whole. Part 2: Employing self-remembrance, strive to practice Presence; (this) one action is the path of spiritual purification, even as it serves to reveal all of God's Kingdoms presently...

Topics covered: The answer to your pain isn't outside of the pain itself; Any action against a disturbance only serves to strengthen it; False personality finds ways to glamorize weakness in order to turn it into a strength; This work is not about you going to heaven, it's about you letting heaven make a presence in you; You must always inwardly agree to wait for the touch of God; Please let m...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 19, 2013. Throughout one's spiritual quest, patience should always hold the reins... But a steady, ready persistence to walk into the new -- and to realize what's true -- must lead the way.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains that true prayer is not intended to be something that we do in order to achieve or acquire something for ourselves so that we can feel "at peace." Real prayer is connected to the understanding that, of ourselves, we cannot resolve the conflict that we experience within ourselves without higher help.

Topics covered: The value of personal prayer; How do we stay present; Are disturbances the same as sensations; How do I handle a confrontational situation; I feel inadequate to overcome my negative states; What is undivided awareness; Is it true that any sense of 'I' is false; Why was I born; I've noticed that past memories don't bother me as much as they used to; Interpretation of Christ's wo...

Guy Finley explains that the real reason for practicing ceaseless prayer is so that we can see that we are ceaselessly distracted. Our intention must be to see with greater and greater clarity that currently we do not possess the self-command that we imagine.

Part 1: Confusion is the distance between what real life is showing you about yourself, and your refusal to see the same. Part 2: To realize the thought nature is powerless to resolve the incomplete experiences of life that it creates in the first place releases you from the illusion that by revisiting those same moments -- with thought as your guide -- that you can escape the confusion and co...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about an idea that, if understood properly, has the power to forever change the way we respond to situations that usually instigate a painful conflict of one kind or another.

Guy Finley explains in this short talk that higher help is always freely given to us when we ask properly, but the "problem" is that most of the time we do not recognize, or reject the real help when it is offered.

Topics covered: How should we deal with internal storms and nagging thoughts; I have to listen to these talks many times and am worried that I'm slow; My religious conditioning causes me to have disturbing dreams; Why do I keep choosing work situations that cause me so much stress; I'm conflicted over my relationship with my mother; I feel the presence of loved ones who have passed away; I rea...

Topics covered: Conditions don't create negativity, they expose it; The more you are willing to use being uncomfortable, the less likely you will be used to express the negative state out of which the discomfort came; Everything takes place where you are, not where you don't want to be; Your mind currently belongs to your body and lower emotional parts; The rest you currently seek is the proje...

Topics covered: Review of the Friday night exercise; There are parts of you that are dedicated to defeating your higher intentions; Desire is the root of identification, which attracts unwanted events; The whole of the universe is established to help you enjoin a relationship with the divine; The act of setting an intention produces second force; You should get to know every single voice that...

Guy Finley explains that we always give our attention to what we value most. We can't "look" for the path to the Divine. The path is right here, right now. Our work is to attend and "listen" for the Divine, moment to moment. That is the true path to peace and freedom.

Topics covered: Questions from Guy's webinar on procrastination and inertia; What is the relationship between presence and attention; Why is it so easy for me to go along with the divided mind; Does awareness have the ability to comprehend things without thinking; How do I stay grounded during the day when I'm unable to do my spiritual practices in the morning; How do we protect ourselves agai...

Part 1: A real wish rises out of the ashes of expectations realized and found wanting. A false wish is a temporary spark that -- no matter how many times it's fulfilled -- never quells the fire that gives it birth. Part 2: To be spiritually asleep is to be unaware of other levels of awareness.

Topics covered: Is the part of me that sees my lower nature a higher nature or just something resisting it; What is the proper role of enthusiasm and commitment in our lives; Can you explain active and passive as relates to the masculine/feminine principle; How long should I work with a particular spiritual intention; I often receive inspiration while meditating but am unsure if I should inter...

The moment you've been waiting for is here. It's your turn to be one of the very few men and women -- perhaps 1 in 100,000 -- who have found the greatest treasure on earth. Announcing the worldwide release of best selling author Guy Finley's new book "The Secret of Your Immortal Self: Key Lessons for Realizing the Divinity Within." Here's your chance to master an extraordinary kind of wisdom u...

Topics covered: Everything that can make an impression has an inherent feeling in it; A pure feeling has no residue; A true feeling is connected to the beginning of all things; Sensation is the pursuit of stimulation; As soon as the mind attempts to describe anything, it has already separated from what it is trying to describe; Real prayer is born out of wanting to be free of something rather...

Topics covered: Tasting a remark before saying it; What we have called ourselves has been nothing but unconscious momentum of thought; Full observation is full negation; Full observation holds the observer and the observed at once; Story of a man on a ship who anchored himself over the deepest part of the sea.